<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:48 PM, James Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gajs-f0el@dea.spamcon.org" target="_blank">gajs-f0el@dea.spamcon.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, Tom Lichti wrote:<br>
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I am using a laptop as a slave backend, but the only thing connected to it is an HD-PVR. I think your biggest hurdle will<br>
be having enough dedicated USB ports. For sure the HD-PVR *really* wants to be on it's own USB 2.0 port unshared, For<br>
reliability I would think you'd want the same for the HVR's or whatever other USB tuners you want to use. I do not use<br>
the laptop as a frontend at all.<br>
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Thanks for the input, Tom. So I'll be wanting a laptop with as many USB ports as possible, if I want to use 3 USB capture devices plus an external hard drive. That's definitely an important consideration.<br></blockquote>
</div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It may not matter how many ports the laptop has if they're all tied to the same host controller. That's what Tom meant by "unshared". A laptop with some USB 3.0 ports and some USB 2.0 ports is highly likely to have at least two host controllers, though.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Karl<br></div></div>